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wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, sincerity and truth.

x. 3-5. Our fathers did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ :) But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. See abuses of this ordinance committed by the Corinthians, reproved and threatened in this Chap. from ver. 17 to 23, and from ver. 30 to 32. See Mal. i. 7. The wicked say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.

Ver. 6-10. These things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they lusted-Neither be ye idolaters as some of them were-Neither let us commit Portions of Scripture affording suitable fornication as some of them did-Neither let matter of meditation, at, before, and after reus tempt Christ as some of them tempted-ceiving the Sacrament. Ps. cxvi. 7. 12, 13, 14. Neither murmur as some of them murmured. Song ii. 3, 4.-v. 1. Isa. xxv. 6 to 10.-lv. Ver. 16, 17. The cup of blessing which we 1. Rev. xxi. 6.-xxii. 17. John iv. 14.-vi. bless, is it not the communion of the blood of 35. 48. 51 to 63. Christ the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Ver. 20, 21. The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils.

Ver. 31, 32. Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Give none offence neither to Jews nor to Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

xi. 27-29. Whosoever shall eat this bread,

N. B. The preparation required to the acceptable receiving the Lord's supper, are those same qualifications that are required in acceptable prayer; which see at large in the chap. upon Prayer. The sins for which men ought to be excluded from this ordinance, are the same sins, persisted in, for which the sacred Scriptures allow that they should be excluded from Christian society, and declare that such shall be excluded out of the kingdom of heaven; which see in the various characters of sinners, and threats against them. Also see, Persons that cannot enter into the kingdom of God; and, Persons that shall be cast into the lake of fire.

CHAPTER XII.

OF THE HOLY GHOST.

I. THE Spirit's influences upon the material and animal world. Gen. i. 2. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the

waters.

Job xxvi. 13. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens.

xxxii. 8. There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me. xxxiv. 14, 15. If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh shall perish together.

Ps. civ. 30. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.

Isa. xxxiv. 16. His Spirit hath gathered them, (viz. the vultures to destroy.)

II. The Spirit's influences upon the minds of mankind. Upon the prophets. Numb. xi. 25. The Spirit rested upon the seventy elders, and they prophesied.

Ver. 26. The Spirit of the Lord rested upon Eldad and Medad, and they prophesied.

Ver. 29. Moses said, would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them.

xxiv. 2, 3. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Balaam, and he took up his parable, and said, &c.

1 Sam. x. 10. The Spirit of God came upon Saul, and he prophesied. Ch. xix. 23.

xix. 20. The Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they prophesied.

2 Sam. xxiii. 2. David said, the Spirit of

the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

2 Chron. xx. 14. Upon Jahaziel came the Spirit of the Lord, in the midst of the congregation.

Neh. ix. 30. Thou testifiedst against them by thy Spirit, in thy prophets.

Isa. xlviii. 16. The Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me.

1. 4. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned.

Ezek. ii. 2. The Spirit entered into me, when he spake unto me. Ch. iii. 24.

iii. 12. The Spirit took me up, and I heard a voice, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord. Ch. xi. 24.

Ver. 14. The Spirit lifted me up, and the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. Ch.

viii. 3.-xi. 1.

xi. 5. The Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak, &c.

Joel ii. 28. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Acts ii. 17, 18.

Mic. iii. 8. I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Zech. vii. 12. The words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit, by the former prophets.

Matt. xxii. 43. How doth David in spirit call him Lord?

Luke i. 15. John shall be filled with the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 76. Shall be called the prophet of the Highest. (Ch. vii. 28. There hath not arisen a greater prophet than John the Baptist.)

Ver. 41. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost, &c.-Ver. 67. Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and he prophesied.

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ii. 25, 26. The Holy Ghost was upon SiIt was revealed to him, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 2 Kings ii. 9.

Ver. 27-30. He (Simeon) came by the Spirit into the temple. He took up the child [Jesus] in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.

Acts i. 16. This Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of David, spake concerning Judas.

xi. 28. Agabus signified by the Spirit, that there should be a great dearth, which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar.

xxi. 11. Agabus said, Thus saith the Spirit,

So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle.

1 Tim. iv. 1. The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.

Heb. ix. 8. The Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest.

1 Pet. i. 10, 11. Of which salvation the prophets inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you. Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.-Ver. 12. They ministered to those who have preached the gospel, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.

2 Pet. i. 21. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

III. The Spirit's influences upon Jesus Christ. The formation of his body. Matt. i. 18. Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 20. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Luke i. 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

IV. Endowments of his mind. Isa. xi. 2, 3. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. Ver. 3.

xlii. 1. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Matt. xii. 18.

Ixi. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek. Luke iv. 18.

Matt. iii. 16. Jesus saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 22.

Luke ii. 40. Jesus waxed strong in spirit, and the grace of God was upon him.

John i. 32. John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

iii. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by mea sure unto him.

Acts i. 2. Jesus, through the Holy Ghost, gave commandments unto the apostles.

x. 38. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power.

V. Upon the actions of his life. Matt. iv. the wilderness.

xxviii. 25. Well spake the Holy Ghost by 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into

Esaias the prophet.

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Luke iv. 14. Jesus returned in the power] of the Spirit into Galilee.

VI. Upon his miracles. Matt. xii. 28. Jesus said, If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Luke xi. 20.

VII. Upon his oblation. Heb. ix. 14. Christ, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot unto God.

VIII. Upon his resurrection. 1 Pet. iii. 18. Christ, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.

IX. The Spirit's influences upon the apostles, is a witness to Christ. John xv. 26. The Comforter, the Spirit of truth, he shall testify of me. Ver. 27.

Acts v. 32. We are his witnesses; so also is the Holy Ghost.

Rom. i. 4. Jesus Christ, declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness.

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xv. 26. He shall testify of me; and ye shall also bear witness. Ver. 27.

Acts ii. 4. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 16. Peter said, This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel. Joel ii. 28.

Ver. 33. Jesus, being by the right hand of +

God exalted, hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear.

iv. 8. Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said.-Ver. 31. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God

with boldness.

vi. 10. They were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit, by which Stephen spake.

vii. 55. Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, looked up into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.

viii. 29. The Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join this chariot.

x. 19, 20. The Spirit said to Peter, Behold, three men seek thee. Go with them, for I

1 Tim. iii. 16. God was manifest in the have sent them. Ch. xi. 12. flesh; justified in the Spirit.

Heb. x. 15. The Holy Ghost is a witness to us.

1 John v. 6. It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.-Ver. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.Ver. 8. There are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood.

Rev. xix. 10. The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.

X. The Spirit's influence upon the apostles of Christ, furnishing them with the knowledge of divine truths, and utterance to express them. Luke xii. 12. The Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. Mark xiii. 11.

xxi. 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Matt. x. 19, 20.

xxiv. 49. Behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you: But tarry ye in Jerusalem till ye be endued with power from on high. Acts i. 4, 5. 8.

xiii. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work of the ministry, whereunto I have called them.-Ver. 4. They, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia.

Ver. 9-11. Saul, filled with the Holy Ghost, said, O full of all subtilty, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind.

Ver. 52. The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

xv. 28. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burthen than these necessary things.

xvi. 6. They were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.—Ver. 7. They assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.

xix. 6. The Holy Ghost came on them, and they spake with tongues and prophesied.

xx. 22. Paul said, I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.-Ver. 23. The Holy Ghost witnesseth, saying, That bonds and afflictions abide me.

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xxi. 4. Certain disciples said to Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

John xiv. 16, 17. I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth, that he may abide with you. Ver. 26. He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Luke 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5. Paul said, my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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xvi. 7. I will send the Comforter unto you. -Ver. 13. The Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth; and will show you things Ver. 14, 15.

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Ver. 9, 10. Eye hath not seen, nor ear | perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good heard, neither have entered into the heart of works. Rom. xv. 4. The scriptures were man, the things that God hath prepared for written for our learning. them that love him. But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit. Isa. Ixiv. 4.

Ver. 12, 13. We have received the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.

vii. 40. I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

2 Cor. iii. 6. God hath made us able ministers of the new testament: not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.-Ver. 8. Ministration of the Spirit is glorious.

vi. 4. Approving ourselves as the ministers of God, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned. Ver. 6.

2 Pet. i. 21. Holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Heb. i. 1, 2. God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.

XII. Miraculous gifts of the Spirit upon the apostles, and some primitive Christians. Acts ii. 4. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Ver. 8. 11. 17.

x. 44. While Peter spake, the Holy Ghost fell on all that heard the word.-Ver. 45. On the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 47. Peter said, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost?

Gal. i. 11, 12. The gospel which was preached of me, is not after man: For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.-Ver. 16. It pleased God to reveal his Son in me, that II the word of the Lord, Ye shall be baptized might preach him among the heathen.

Eph. ii. 20. Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, an habitation of God through the Spirit. Ver. 22.

iii. 4. 5. The mystery of the knowledge of Christ, is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.-Ver. 8. Unto me is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Ver. 7.

1 Thess. i. 5. Our word came in power, and in the Holy Ghost.

1 Pet. i. 12. Those who have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Ch. iv. 11.

Rev. i. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's

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ii. 7. Hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Ver. 11. 17. 29. Ch. iii. 6. 13.

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xi. 15, 16. The Holy Ghost fell on them, (the Gentiles,) as on us. Then remembered

with the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 17. God gave them, (the Gentiles,) the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ver. 24. Barnabas was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith.

xv. 8. God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as unto us.

xix. 6. They spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Rom. xv. 18, 19. I will not dare to speak of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed; through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.

1 Cor. xii. 4. There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

Ver. 7-11. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in To one is given by the Spirit the word of the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, &c.

xvii. 3. He carried me away in the Spirit. xxii. 17. The Spirit and the bride say, Come.

wisdom; to another the word of knowledge; to another faith; to another the gifts of healing; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he

XI. Hence the following character is given of the Holy Scriptures, as written by the prophets and apostles. 2 Tim. iii. 15. The holy scriptures are able to make thee wise unto sal-will. Ver. 30. vation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ver. 16, 17. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be

xiv. 2. In the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Heb. ii. 4. God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost.

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Concerning the gifts of tongues, see 1 Cor. xiii. 8.-xiv. 2. 5, 6. 18. 22, 23. 39.

XIII. The influences of the Spirit upon the minds of Christians in general, in their sanctification. Gen. vi. 3. God said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Neh. ix. 20. Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them.

Ps.li. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from me. -Ver. 12. Uphold me with thy free Spirit. cxliii. 10. Thy Spirit is good, lead me. Prov. i. 23. I will pour out my Spirit unto you, and make known my words unto you. Isa. xxxii. 15. Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field.-Ver. 16. Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

xliv. 3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.

lix. 21. This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed.

Ixiii. 11. Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

Ezek. xi. 19. I will put a new Spirit within you. Ch. xxxvi. 26.

xxxvi. 27. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. Ch.

xxxvii. 14.

xxxix. 29. I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, saith the Lord.

Mic. ii. 7. Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? Hag. ii. 5. My Spirit remaineth among you, fear not.

Zech. iv. 6. Thus saith the word of the Lord, Not by might nor by power, but by my + Spirit, saith the Lord, shall ye prevail.

xii. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications.

Matt. iii. 11. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

John iii. 5, 6. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.-Ver. 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

vi. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. vii. 39. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive,

xvi. 8. He will reprove the world of sin, and of judgment.

Acts v. 32. Also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

vi. 3. Look ye out men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom.-Ver. 5. They chose Stephen, a man full of the Holy Ghost.

ix. 31. The churches walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Rom. v. 5. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is gi

ven unto us.

viii. 1, 2. There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Ver. 5. They that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit.-Ver. 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Ver. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Ver. 13. If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Ver. 14-16. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

Ver. 23. We who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, do groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Ver. 26. We know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit helpeth our infirmities. xiv. 17. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

xv. 13. Abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Ver. 16. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

1 Cor. iii. 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

vi. 11. Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Ver. 19. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God?

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